Our Favorite Quotes & Proverbs

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.Ronald Reagan

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.John F. Kennedy

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, "You can't say that".Garrison Keillor

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.Lily Tomlin

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.General George S. Patton

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.John Fitzgerald Kennedy

It's not the number of years in your life that matters, it's the life in your years!

Author Unknown

Irish Quotes & Proverbs

Whisky was invented so the Irish wouldn't

rule the world.

If wars were fought with words, Ireland WOULD BE ruling the world!

Anonymous

Here's to a long life and a merry oneA quick death and an easy oneA pretty girl and an honest oneA cold beer and another one!Irish Toast

May you be in Heaven a full half hour before the Devil knows you're dead.Irish Toast

The Irish are a race of people who don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it.Sidney Littlewood

There are only two kinds of people in the world, The Irish and those who wish they were.Irish Saying

Two Irishmen were passing a pub - well, it could happen.Frank Carson

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.Edna O'Brien

You know it's summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.Hal Roach

Dance as if no one's watching, sing as if no one's listening, and live everyday as if it were your last.Irish Saying

Canadian Quotes & Proverbs

Canada has never been a melting-pot; more like a tossed salad.Arnold Edinborough

Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.Richard Staines

Keep Canada beautiful. Swallow your beer cans.Anonymous

For some reason a glaze passes over people's faces when you say "Canada". Maybe we should invade South Dakota or something.Sandra GotliebWife of Canadian ambassador to U.S.

God Bless America, and God help Canada to put up with them!Anonymous

If you don't believe your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else.Stompin' Tom Connors

Fuddle Duddle.Pierre TrudeauA euphemistic substitution for "f%@#" or "f@# off". Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau caused a minor scandal when opposition MPs claimed he had mouthed the words "F___ off" to them in the House of Commons in February 1971. Pressed by journalists, Trudeau later unconvincingly stated he may have said (or mouthed) "fuddle duddle or something like that." Trudeau likely got the word "fuddle duddle" from the official Hansard transcript of his words for that parliamentary session. The Hansard reporter couldn't make out (or chose not to record verbatim) what Trudeau had mouthed, and chose to write down the now-infamous phrase instead. The phrase then took on a humorous connotation for Canadians.